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A SNEAKY loophole has been exploited by a Monaco businessman allowing him to secure a thoroughly unique set of weekend wheels – a Porsche 917.
Yes, Claudio Roddaro, has wrangled a set of number plates for his 917 in order to legally drive it on the roads surrounding Monte Carlo.
As you’d expect, it is a bit of a convoluted process to road-register a Le Mans race car, with Rodaro having to jump through a number of hoops, and perform a bit of vehicular identity theft.
The car Roddaro drives is chassis 917-30, which was never officially finished by Porsche.
A car owned by the late Count Rossi, the Italian nobleman who masterminded Martini’s famous sponsorship tie-in with Porsche, is central to Roddaro’s road-legal 917.
In this case, Monaco’s road laws state a car which has been registered overseas can also be driven on the road in the principality.
All Roddaro had to do was prove his chassis 917-37 was identical to 917-30 and his dream of driving a Le Mans race car on the road would become a reality.
Two months, and a mountain of paperwork later and the numberplates were secured on 917-37, gifting us the magic of a road-faring Le Mans race car.
